Pokemon Go #12: "It's in the trees! It's coming!" The Houndooms of love are calling me (to join in a raid).

Look at these adorable pikachus that dd's pokemon encyclopedia has.

I have injured my back so have been housebound for more than a week now and haven't really played other than doing the daily catches.

cottonwool125 Yes, they need some way of keeping us interested over the cold winter months!

WhatToDo wow that's very lucky! I miss the double candy events hatched a Mareep and a Dratini both with 60 candies each!

Hopefully once the Legendary Raids have finished, or the hype has died down slightly, they'll do another event

cottonwool125 Nice! I was very lucky and got two Porygons in the same day during the double event, so evolved my best one straight away.

Felt like I'd never get one, though!

WhatToDo ooh I didn't know it had another evolution after gen 2

I hatched it from an egg, but it only came with 16 candies which is a shame. I got the same amount from one of my 5k eggs. Every little helps though I suppose . I have 3 upgrades so as soon as I have enough candies, I can evolve straight away!

cottonwool125 Congrats! It has a final evolution in Gen IV as Porygon-Z

Look what I managed to get my hands on today!

Checking in as I always lose this thread!

Ooh I also have a question- can Espeon and Umbreon result from a random Eevee evolution?

No; you can only get them by using the name trick (only works once) or walking 10km with an Eevee and then evolving at the right time (day for Espeon, night for Umbreon).

Otherwise you get either Jolteon, Vaporeon or Flareon

Ooh I also have a question- can Espeon and Umbreon result from a random Eevee evolution?

I've done a couple recently as I seemed to gather a lot of Eevee candies, so did a couple just for fun. Only got jolteons and one flareon. Made me realise the only ones I've ever managed to get are both with the naming trick- and they're rubbish IVs as this was before I really knew about IVs, when I just evolved my highest CP mon.

cottonwool125 Yeah, I only got Blissey and Snorlax relatively recently. I tend to have Espeon and Kangaskhan as my third and fourth gym choices, and then after that anything high CP that I won't need.

My top 16 definitely don't go in gyms!

WhatToDo I see what you mean unfortunately I have neither Blissey or Snorlax. Never even seen a whiff of a Chansey . All of my top Pokemon have good movesets and are very close, if not fully powered up, so I feel like it's a waste popping them in gyms.

My Donphan is still sitting in prime position- he could easily be overtaken by Vaporeon or Gyarados, but I don't have the heart as he has been there for so long

What if a Pokémon has two types? How does it work with the stab bonus?

You get the STAB bonus with a move of either of its types, so if you have a fire/rock Pokemon and it has dark/fire moves, you get the STAB bonus only on the fire move because it's half fire type.

So while it's usually better to be double, one move the same will get you the STAB bonus for that move.

No, she has Outrage as her Charged Move.

Yeah, Outrage is a high damage move, so while it doesn't get the STAB bonus nor is it super effective against fire, it is still a powerful move from a powerful Pokemon. HydroPump would have been a better move against a fire Pokemon, though.

MummySparkle/cottonwool125 I put high CP Pokemon in gyms, but not ones I need in raids. So Blissey and Snorlax are always my first two for gyms as their main thing is defending and they shouldn't be used in raids.

At least you didn't accidentally golden razberry a 10cp Magikarp today yeah neither did I...

MummySparkle I did the same thing a few weeks ago, I was on 'recent' as opposed to 'combat power' and accidentally put a 100 and something CP Nidorina in there to be honest I completely forgot and she came
back about a week later, so she withstood better than the likes of my 2000+ Pokemon!

I try to keep my top 6 out of gyms now- as obviously I can't then use them for raids. I'm only level 27, so level 2 raids are very difficult if I don't have the right types of Pokemon, and most of my top 6 are ground types which are normally quite effective

Very naiiiiice

Nothing noteworthy here today, except I accidentally put a bulbasaur in a gym I thought my Pokémon were in CP order but they were in number order and I wasn't paying attention. Silly thing? Both Gyarados and Snorlie went in after the Bulbasaur and have been kicked out - Bulbasaur is still in

Sweet!

I've recently changed jobs, and I'm very pleased to see that as my new job is in a slight GPS blackspot, my game is glitching my avatar all over the place and walking my eggs for me

What if a Pokémon has two types? How does it work with the stab bonus?

Ok so what is a STAB bonus?

A STAB bonus is a Same Type Attack Bonus, meaning a Pokemon does extra damage if its moves are the same type as its type (for example, a water Pokemon having double water moves will get the STAB bonus, just like a fire Pokemon with double fire).

It gives you a 25% damage increase, so it really does help.

Ok so what is a STAB bonus?

I soloed two raids today, both Quilava, beating the first with Omastar and Gary and the second with just Gary. I caught them both too. On the 2nd raid the app chose Omastar and I swapped it for Gary as I saw how quickly he caused damage.

Gyarados' are more powerful and generally have better moves (assuming yours has Hydro Pump?). Omastar is part rock though, which does mean it is doubly resistant to fire attacks.

I would be very cautious about using any Pokemon the app suggests; they rarely get it right. You really need to think about what Pokemon have which moves, if any have the STAB bonus and so on; it's too complex to just go with what the app suggests.

Blue spaghetti! I just tried to rename my Tangela as that MummySparkle but it was too long

Shame you didn't get your distance mowing the lawn! Every little bit helps when it comes to eggs, never know what the weather is going to be like.

I just had a bit of a fail too- bought a lucky egg from the store as I had a couple of evolutions I could do, and I was only 10,000XP off Level 27. Did all my evolutions...then realised I forgot to activate the lucky egg I'm now less than 2000XP off with no evolutions left to do! I think tomorrow is my 7 day streak though so should hit first thing tomorrow. What a waste!